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David Knapp is a senior staff member of in the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He has over 17 years of experience with the analysis and processing of satellite imagery and GIS data for ecological research, including the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) and the Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) projects. His research interests include the development of algorithms and numerical techniques for extracting and processing ecological data from satellite and airborne sensors. He has also recently become involved in the use of airborne and ground-based LIDAR data to characterize the structure of vegetation. David is involved in the majority of projects undertaken by the Asner lab, managing technicians and developing tools to perform advanced analyses in an automated and systematic way. He is also the lead scientist for algorithm development in the Carnegie Airborne Observatory program. | 